I full rolled my FJ40 after 3 years of hard wheeling at the end of July. I jacked it up pretty good (worse then pics show) plus the combinations of many other flops had the body looking less then desireable.

I contiplated for a while on what to do with it, then I decided I wanted to build something new that would still be fun to have on the trail and something that would hold up better then the wide body cruiser. So I started tearing it down

I am going to be using the cowl, firewall, Grille, Hood, and if my idea works out, the floor back to behind the front seats. I will be cutting the frame in the front up to the grille and cutting it right behind the floor cut. That is all that will be left of the frame and body.

Finished the tub/firewall cut on the passenger side and then started working on removing the Dash and then reworking the cowl. I really did not want to have to remake the dash for a third time, so I am going do some flaring off the new cowl to make it fit. Should look pretty nice when it is completed.

Damaged cowl, both sides pretty much the same.

Cut out the sides, and then removed the dash.

New side and new top. I am going to have to wait for another person to be around to help me bend the outers in and force the top flat. For now it looks kind of wavey and out of square.

After I rolled the FJ on the last trip, I beat the crap out of it for the rest of the day. After about 3 hours of water crossings like this, the cruiser finally stopped working and we had to drag it out:

Everyone suspected that the clutch pressure plate was packed with mud, but I some what thought maybe I broke an output shaft on the dual tcases.